This September the McLaren Group will observe the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding by Bruce McLaren, but the entire 2013 season will be part of the festivities as McLaren celebrates its serial successes in a wide variety of motor sport forms. Since contesting their first Grand Prix at Monaco in 1966, Formula One McLarens have amassed 182 wins, 155 pole positions and 151 fastest race laps while carrying seven different drivers—Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen and Lewis Hamilton—to a total of 12 World Drivers Championships, and collecting eight Constructors crowns in the process.
McLaren Cars also dominated the fabled Can-Am series in North America, winning 43 races and five consecutive championships between 1967 and 1971, while McLaren Indycars won two Indy 500s and one American National Championship, two F5000 titles and took victory at Le Mans in 1995. Today, in addition to its racing endeavors, the company also supplies standardized Engine Control Units to every car racing in Formula One, NASCAR and IndyCar.
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